vanity_fair名利场_英美文学_课件.ppt

No writer was better gifted than Thackeray for this kind of satire because no faculty is more proper to satire than reflection.  ------- Hippolyte Adolphe Taine  Vanity fair The Characteristics of Vanity Fair 1.Vanity Fair has a sub-title, A Novel Without a Hero, which intends to portray the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole. 2.Thackeray employs an omniscient narrator to tell the story. omniscient narrator omniscient narrator an ‘all‐knowing’ kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third‐person narratives. The omniscient narrator has a full knowledge of the storys events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters. He or she will also be capable of describing events happening simultaneously in different places—a capacity not normally available to the limited point of view of first‐person narratives. Selected Reading Chapter TwoIn Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign 3. Vanity Fair is work of social criticism, and is noted for the author’s realistic depiction, the ironic and sarcastic tone and constant comment and criticism. Archetype(原型) The character of Becky Sharp is based in part on Thackerays maternal grandmother Harriet Becher. She abandoned her husband and children when she eloped with Captain Charles Christie. In 1806 shortly after the death of Christie and her husband she married Edward Butler, another army officer. Thackeray lived with his grandmother in Paris in the 1830s and again in the 1840s. Character Becky Sharp the living environment He who stays near vermillion gets strained red, and he who stays near ink gets strained black .近朱者赤近墨者黑 * by William Makepeace Thackeray Named after the fair set up by Beelzebub in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, the novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and concerns the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious; and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of